Said monkey wishing-fist is a reference to the short story “The Monkey’s Paw”. In it, a couple is given a monkey’s paw that will grant them three wishes, each with horrible, ironic consequences. First they wish for some money to pay off their house. Their son dies in a factory accident and they get a health insurance payout. Their second wish is for their son to be brought back to life, and someone starts knocking on their door. When the woman tries to open the door, the man realizes that his son was horribly maimed by the accident, so he wishes him dead again. The woman opens the door to find no one there.

I think that either he has started moving beyond humanity or else he’s become secluded to the point he’s manifesting cabin fever. He also should be doing a better job of cleaning up after himself, it’s not like he can bring a janitor in here to do it for him.

I also think that whoever did layout for this page could be doing some heavy business in album art. Is that all Phil?

Thank you, Hawk. I’m pleased with how it turned out as well. Coming up with and drawing the various occult items was indeed creepy fun. It may interest everyone to know, I penciled this page on Halloween night, so I was very inspired. a Boo!

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